The Vice
President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday
charged policemen to do everything humanly possible to respect everyone’s right
and stop extrajudicial killings.
The vice
president said that this reiterating the federal government’s determination to
end impunity within the Nigeria Police Force.
Osinbajo
made this declaration while declaring open a three-day conference and retreat
for senior police officers in the country, with the theme: ‘Repositioning the
force for the Challenges of Effective Policing in the 21st Century,’ held at
Eko Hotels and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.
Osinbajo, who
represented President Muhammadu Buhari, said that excessive use of force by the
police must also be discouraged.
The VP said:
“We must arrest internet fraudsters and protect the rights of the hardworking
Nigerian youths. We must also prevent misguided elements from destroying the
image of the country. There are many cases of extrajudicial killings in the
force; it must stop because the image of the police must be protected. It is
the duty of senior police officers and those in strategic positions in the
force to ensure that whoever contravenes the ethics of the force should be
dealt with. We want our police to be better, and one we can be proud of. The
service of the police is something we cannot do without, including the services
of other law enforcement agencies. We have police stations everywhere. That is
why police should expect public scrutiny and criticism. We want our police to
be better and one we can be proud globally."
According to
Osinbajo, twine security challenge was facing the Nigerian society. These are
terrorism and banditry.
“In the last
one year over 2,348 armed robbery suspects were arrested, 412,000 kidnappers,
612,000 kidnappers, 64,000 kidnapped victims were rescued and 634,000 suspects
were arrested.”
Speaking at
the event, the Inspector-General of the Police, Mr. Mohammed Adamu, said the
intention of the Nigeria Police Force was to use the forum to undertake a holistic
evaluation of the current internal security threats and crime dynamics in the
country.
He further
explained that the retreat was in furtherance of, “our policing vision, which
emphasises capacity building as a pathway to enhancing effective police service
delivery in the country.”
He added: “I
firmly believe that with the constant engagement of managers and consistent
training and retraining of personnel of the force across all ranks, the
expectation of the federal government and indeed the nation at large for a
police force that is knowledge-driven, rule of law-guided, community-oriented,
technology compliance and intelligence led shall be achieved. The programme is
expected to avail participants’ police officers of the opportunity to draw on
expertise of season facilitators and rich professional knowledge of the array
of police officers."
The Minister
of Police Affairs, Mohammad Dan, said the conference was expected to proffer
solution to the numerous security challenges in the country.
" We
want our police to be better and be proud of. The service of the police is
something we cannot do without and other law enforcement agencies,we have
police stations everywhere. That is why police should expect public scrutiny
and criticism, because we want our police to be better and be proud of in
Nigeria and globally."
He added
that, aside from terrorism, we are also contending with banditary. In the
last one year over 2,348 armed robbery suspects were arrested, four hundred and
twelve thousand kidnappers, six hundred right hundred and six four thousand
kidnapped victims were rescued and six hundred and thirty four thousand other
suspects were arrested.
No comments:
Post a Comment